ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Small and medium size business owners can set up online customer support platforms that combine the backend help desk system used by agents (ticketing, knowledge management) with an online customer portal (self service, forums, idea management, voting, etc) on the front end. To learn more, you can check out some of the videos here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development product-management startup) [.] Reply Idont , on October 16, 2009 at 9:12 am Said: How can you differentiate if you copy-paste the well established leader. Reply links for 2009-10-13 « Blarney Fellow , on October 13, 2009 at 6:10 pm Said: [.]

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

So-called after the California Gold Rush where the purveyors of picks and shovels made a killing (whereas the outcome for prospectors was mixed), the picks and shovels of machine intelligence are hardware, data feeds, and (arguably) the algorithms themselves. Similar tools for recruitment, insurance, financial management etc.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

However the VC’s are managing a portfolio while you, the entrepreneur are managing one company – yours. Eventually, games that depended only on CDRom for their differentiation fizzled out, as people saw that the access times for all that data made the games a painful experience.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

List a few bullet points that describe your key differentiators from the competition. Don’t focus so much on feature differentiation here. She owns a well-established vacation rental management business in Wilmington, North Carolina. Maybe your brand has a sense of humor and talks like a California surfer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Stu Heinecke (03:16): Well, you know, I guess the fact is that, well, if you look at let's the, it's full of contradictions because if you look at, let's say the state flower of California, it is a weed, you know, it's the California poppy. So they are beautiful. So that's where the mindset, the weed mindset comes from. That's real.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

After you’ve persuaded recipients to open your email, you need to deliver high-quality content to differentiate your email from everything else in their inbox. After all, if you’ve managed to get them to read your email, doesn’t it make sense to ask for the sale? Offer value to the recipient. Call-to-action.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

How do your natural strengths differentiate you from the other real estate businesses in the area? Maybe you want to be the area expert in short sales, only focus on rental property management, or perhaps you are the go-to resource for landlord/tenant laws for your state. Property management. Management plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. ” What he meant was that since your scarcest resource as a manager or sales rep is your time you need to qualify better. People who manage processes make more sales. why buy me?

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

Well, let’s leave for now the huge economic fallacy of this thinking and concentrate on the fact that the narrowing of the relative wealth differential between the U.S. From lists like the “ most business friendly ” countries to California now having a portal where parents can see teacher’s ratings to the U.S. advisors (i.e.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 2, 2020

late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. How do you spot the buggy whip trap and differentiate it from a simple business cycle slump? I found myself in the middle of such a slow-rolling change twice in my career. First, in the.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Recent episode, The power of just one big marketing idea and How to get it really brings home this idea that instead of chasing the idea of the week, really lock in on one big idea to differentiate your business that can make all the difference in the world. Listen to Content Is Profit wherever you get your podcasts. (00:53):

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles. We can be blunt but we believe that builds healthier relationships. Empowerment.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

from University of California, Davis in Biomedical Engineering. For his doctoral work, his research focused on liver tissue engineering and stem cell differentiation. He’s a co-founder and CEO of HB Risk , and a Professor and Department Chair in Civil Engineering at California State University, Chico. He received his Ph.D.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Here’s how Los Angeles, California-based BountyIt works – you post up a problem or something you need some constructive feedback on. They did manage to find a reliable one later, on their own site. You then set a “bounty”, or a sum of money you feel it is worth.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2013

David Calderon, a teacher at the Villa Park High School in Villa Park City, California, participated in the BEC Boost with his students, and was the mentor to two of the competition’s grand prize winners. How did you hear about the California BEC Boost business plan competition? How did you mentor your students for the BEC Boost?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

In this post I advocate taking a harder stand on where your product or solution differentiates in the market – even if it means you lose some deals as a result. This was a dilemma because while it seemed like easy money and a reasonable request I knew it was going to drive up our support and maintenance costs and become hard to manage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Recent episode, The power of just one big marketing idea and How to get it really brings home this idea that instead of chasing the idea of the week, really lock in on one big idea to differentiate your business that can make all the difference in the world. So I think I'm the only Carmine Gallo in California.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2016

Differentiation took a backseat to PR, in some ways. Unlike many other industries, though, the game is all about differentiation within a narrow scope. At least eight different states will be voting on legalization of recreational or medical marijuana use this November, including the behemoth that is California.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

from University of California, Davis in Biomedical Engineering. For his doctoral work, his research focused on liver tissue engineering and stem cell differentiation. He’s a co-founder and CEO of HB Risk , and a Professor and Department Chair in Civil Engineering at California State University, Chico. He received his Ph.D.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 17, 2012

Managing people thousands of miles away is difficult at best, so when calculating costs, consider that you may need to pay someone to oversee your overseas contractors. The time zone differential may be a slight benefit, depending on where your business and your contractors are located. workers easier and more convenient.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2012

Maryland was the first state to pass benefit corporation legislation in April 2010, followed by Hawaii, Virginia, California, Vermont, New Jersey and New York. This is an opportunity to [earn] support from customers, to differentiate the business from its competitors, and to make a difference in the process.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). But we managed to grow a few customers, so that’s good, in spite of the name. Noel: So we been looking on enterprise power management tool. We been managing the field by plan more than 75 enterprise customers and channel partners.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 24, 2016

She is also the CEO of Immunogum, a start–up in Newport Beach, California. But culture will help you succeed and be one of the differentiators to also–rans. It can’t hurt for more seasoned managers either. I met Kirsten Mangers several years ago after she successfully sold her startup, Webvisible.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

I suggested LinkedIn, oDesk, and eLance with the caveat that the field is extremely competitive and crowded and differentiation would be tough to achieve. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. Happy Grasshopper. and a systematic affiliate marketing program. Taariq is also a 1M/1M premium member.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

My partner was in product management at Demand Media. How will you differentiate?” I’m a partner at the largest VC fund in Southern California. The last one was to Salesforce.com where I was VP Product Management.” People read magazines for a reason and it’s a combination of focused content and beautiful images.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. At yesterday's private roundtable we also had this discussion, so I thought I would mention it in today's recap.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

If you simply update your résumé and (e)mail it off to a hiring manager, you’ll probably be left twiddling your thumbs for a long, long time while other applicants get all the interviews. You’ll have plenty of other areas in your profile where you can differentiate yourself. Must-have # 12: Well-managed endorsements.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2017

This dynamic is strongest in California. It’s, in part, due to the failure of many VCs to effectively apply basic strategic concepts — like differentiation — into their market positioning. The end-result of having these “founder submissive” investors is often immature management teams that aren’t able to effectively scale.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. VC’s that do make multiple investments in certain businesses typically do this from multiple funds they manage.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Residents are collaborating to start, finance and manage public works projects and proving they can bootstrap a better job themselves. Recent growth in digital social networks has served as a reminder on what differentiates our species. Or the Enrico Resguardo Silvestre Hote l in Baja California. It was anti-social in nature.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Prior to that, she spent 12 years at Stanford; worked at Monsanto and Sigma Chemical as a research scientist; administered a dialysis clinical trial at University of California; and taught chemistry and basic engineering courses. The agencies were all of differentiating ilk, and so they may or may not give us title.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The VP of Marketing looked at all the other PDAs on the market and differentiated Handspring’s product by emphasizing its superior expandability and performance. The Experience is the Product | Better product management and products , on September 23, 2010 at 12:17 pm Said: [.] End result? make-or-break.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Today, more than 125,000 businesses and individuals at 92 percent of the Fortune 500 use Box to manage information and collaboration in the cloud. But at this point we’re so much larger than some of the companies that are going after the same space that it’s really not a challenge for us to differentiate ourselves.”.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

And it’s a combined product management and technical function, to boost an already positive growth curve into something even bigger.” (via October 2012 – Erin Turner and Gagan Biyani host the first Growth Hackers Conference in Menlo Park, California. via AndrewChen.co). via TechCrunch).

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbaras Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. Cash Flow Management (4). Thanks for visiting! John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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